Bollandist Definition

noun

Any member of an association of scholars, originally all Jesuits, who since the early seventeenth century have studied hagiography and the cult of the saints in Christianity.

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Noun

Singular:
bollandist
Plural:
bollandists

Origin of Bollandist

  • Bolland +‎ -ist, after the founder Jean Bolland (1596-1665).

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Bollandist Sentence Examples

  • The legend of the second of these saints is given in the Bollandist Acta SS.

  • This, with additions from the life of St Romuald, is published in the Bollandist Ada Sanctorum (June 19), vi.

  • The sources for her life are to be found in the Bollandist Acta Sanctorum on the Ilth of August, and sketches in such Lives of the Saints as Alban Butler's.

  • Church history was allowed to be represented by such men as the Abbe Darras; and many French Catholics were ready to accept without question what the Bollandist Pere de Smedt has not hesitated to call the historical errors and lies of Charles Bartelemy.

  • Ursulae (Cologne, 1647), and the Bollandist Acta Sanctorum, 21st October, where the story fills 230 folio pages.

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